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Inside Llewyn Davis

New audio commentary featuring writers Robert Christgau, David Hajdu, and Sean Wilentz

The First Hundred Feet, the Last Hundred Feet – A new conversation between filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and directors Joel and Ethan Coen about the evolution of their approach, from Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis

New piece on the history of “Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song),” featuring music producer T Bone Burnett and the Coens

New piece about Dave Van Ronk and the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early sixties, featuring music writer and historian Elijah Wald

Sunday – A short 1961 documentary by Dan Drasin about the riots that took place in Washington Square Park after folk musicians were prevented from gathering and playing there

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PLUS: An essay by film critic Kent Jones

Quote: The visionary chroniclers of eccentric Americana Joel and Ethan Coen present one of their greatest creations in Llewyn Davis, a singer barely eking out a living on the peripheries of the flourishing Greenwich Village folk scene of the early sixties. As embodied by Oscar Isaac, in a revelatory performance, Llewyn (loosely modeled on off-the-radar folk legend Dave Van Ronk) is extraordinarily talented but also irascible, rude, and self-defeating. Our man’s circular odyssey through an unforgiving wintry cityscape, evocatively captured by cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, is realized with poignant humor and the occasional surreal touch. Featuring a folk soundtrack curated by T Bone Burnett, Inside Llewyn Davis reminds us that in the Coens’ world, history isn’t necessarily written by the winners.

Rita Hayworth: The Columbia Lady – A 2000 featurette on Hayworth’s career as an actor and dancer

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PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley

Quote: “Gilda, are you decent?” Rita Hayworth tosses her hair back and slyly responds, “Me?” in one of the great star entrances in movie history. Gilda, directed by Charles Vidor, features a sultry Hayworth in her most iconic role, as the much-lusted-after wife of a criminal kingpin (George Macready), as well as the former flame of his bitter henchman (Glenn Ford), and she drives them both mad with desire and jealousy. An ever-shifting battle of the sexes set on a Buenos Aires casino’s glittering floor and in its shadowy back rooms, Gilda is among the most sensual of all Hollywood noirs.

Bitter Rice

New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Giuseppe de Santis – A 2007 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani

Interview with Lizzani from 2003

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New English subtitle translation

PLUS: An essay by critic Pasquale Iannone

Quote: During planting season in Northern Italy’s Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker (the seductive Silvana Mangano) falls in with a small-time criminal (Vittorio Gassman) who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend, played by the Hollywood star Doris Dowling. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence, this early smash for producer extraordinaire Dino De Laurentiis and director Giuseppe De Santis is neorealism with a heaping dose of pulp.

Lady Snowblood

Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance

(1974)Quote: More politically minded than the original, Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance is full of exciting plot turns and ingenious action sequences.

Also, Costco Connection magazine has an ad for exclusive Criterion box-sets. On November 6th you should be able to find The Classic Hitchcock Box Set ( The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, and Foreign Correspondent) and The Rock Box Set ( Hard Day's Night, Gimme Shelter, Quadrophenia, and Monterey Pop) at participating stores.